From pessimism to fatalism: it’s all over save for the press releases

College Football Enquirer

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dan Wetzel, Pete Thamel, & SI’s Pat Forde reveal what they are hearing from college administrators as doubts for a football season in the fall are at an all-time high. What has brought on this recent fatalistic realization? Should football just pick back up in the spring?We also tell the tale of a modern-day Rambo who is currently hiding out on the run in Germany… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Time now for the Yahoo Sports College Podcast with Dan Wetzel.
0:06.8	It's like reporting someone has died.
0:09.0	Eventually you're going to be right with this report.
0:11.5	CBS Sports with Joe Paterno.
0:13.5	They were wrong.
0:14.1	They were wrong.
0:14.7	Well, they were right of it.
0:17.4	Except if you're the guy working at the Jerusalem Post
0:21.0	back in the day and you report Jesus Christ has passed away.
0:25.0	Pete themo!
0:28.0	We should get him a hockey mask and call him Jason because he just keeps coming
0:32.0	back from
0:32.8	improbable death circumstances and S. I's Pat 40. We are rooting for football but
0:38.9	we are just increasingly unlikely to get football and And here's Dan!
0:44.0	I welcome to the pod.
0:46.0	Not sure it's going to be the most uplifting one today.
0:50.0	I don't know about you guys.
0:52.0	A lot of pessimism out there a little depressing we're here to to
1:00.0	tell you what we hear and so if you don't want to hear bad news then I can't really help you.
1:06.2	This is not about rooting for the season to end. Far from it. Anybody who says this is easy and they should just play has zero sources, no idea what they're talking about and has not spoken to anyone who has to actually try to do this.
1:22.6	Like you can't, he talked to anyone in college athletics
1:26.8	and it's like just five alarm fire right now, right?
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